It turned out to be a low leg hit. There was a bunch of bone at the hit site that we found after the track was over. We trailed the deer for about 400+ yards and off into a really wet creek bottom with little pools of water here and there. I knew when we got down into that stuff that he was gonna be bedded up in the mud somewhere in the bottom packing his wound but he saw us first and bolted on us. The hunter and myself both got a pretty good luck at him when he got up and he still seemed good and lively. Otis ran after him for a ways before coming back to me.
We kept after him and continued pushing for a little ways but eventually came up on the county road and called it. We were already a few hundred yards into the walk back when I was asked how far we had been. We were at 2.7 miles at that point. I imagine where we called it off was around the 2 mile mark. This deer just wasn't slowing up at all. I really think he'll make it unless he dies of some kind of infection, etc over the long term.
